WordPress Versions

Till now many versions of WordPress has launched. Some of them are older versions, some are older but still supported, some are latest and some are still not launched.

The name of WordPress versions are kept on the United States musicians name.

Older Versions

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
0.7	May 27, 2003	none	Numbering is continued with last release of b2
1.0	Jan 3, 2004	Davis	Additions of search engine friendly links
1.2	May 22, 2004	Mingus	Plugin support added
1.5	Feb 17, 2005	Strayhorn	Added features to manage static page and theme system
2.0	Dec 31, 2005	Duke	Added features like rich editing, faster posting, image uploading and many more
2.1	Jan 22, 2007	Ella	Redesigned interface, corrected security issues, improved editing tools and content management system
2.2	May 16, 2007	Getz	Widget support for templates were added
2.3	Sept 24, 2007	Dexter	Some security fixes, added native tagging support and brought easy notification of updates
2.5	Mar 29, 2008	Brecker	Improved systems like plugin, editor, multi-file upload, extended search
2.6	Jul 15, 2008	Tyner	Made WordPress as more powerful CMS, enables track changes to every post and page and allows posting from anywhere
2.7	Dec 11, 2008	Coltrane	Added automatic upgrade, administration interface redesigned fully
2.8	June10,2009	Baker	Redesigned widget interface, added improvement in speed
2.9	Dec 19, 2009	Carmen	Added built-in image editor, global undo, batch plugin updating
3.0	June17,2010	Thelonious	Added a new theme APIs, new default theme "Twenty Ten", new UI
3.1	Feb23, 2011	Reinhardt	Added admin bar which is displayed in all pages when admin is logged in, a new writing interface
3.2	Jul 4, 2011	Gershwin	Made WordPress faster and lighter seeing growing speed in WordPress community
3.3	Dec 12, 2011	Sonny	Focus on making WordPress familiar for tablet users and beginners
3.4	June13,2012	Green	Improvements on theme customization and other minor changes
3.5	Dec 11,2102	Elvin	new theme "Twenty Twelve", support for color picker, retina display
3.6	Aug 1, 2013	Oscar	New theme "Twenty Thirteen", autosave, post locking, admin enhancements

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Older Supported Versions

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
3.7	Oct 24, 2013	Basie	Automatic apply maintenance and security updates in background, recommendation of strong password
3.8	Dec 12, 2013	Parker	New theme "Twenty Fourteen", responsive for mobile devices, improved admin interface, easy main dashboard
3.9	Apr 16, 2014	Smith	New theme browser, improvements in live widget, header previews
4.0	Sept 4, 2014	Benny	Easy language change, plugin compatibility with PHP 5.5 and MySQL 5.6
4.1	Dec 18, 2014	Dinah	New theme "Twenty Fifteen", vine embeds and distraction free writing
4.2	Apr 23, 2015	Powell	"Press This" feature, emoji and improved character support
4.3	Aug 18, 2015	Billie	More focus on mobile users, improved customizer and better passwords
4.4	Dec 8, 2015	Clifford	New theme "Twenty Sixteen", improved responsive images
4.5	Apr 12, 2016	Coleman	Added live responsive features, inline linking and some other updates

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Latest Version

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
4.6	Aug 16, 2016	Pepper	Added native fonts, streamline updates and content recovery

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Future Version

Version	Released date	Musician	Purpose
4.7	Dec 2016	none	Release is scheduled for December 2016

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WordPress History

WordPress was released on May 27, 2003 by its founders Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg.

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Successor of b2/cafelog

The b2/cafelog, a blogging tool was launched in 2001 by a French programmer Michel Valdrighi.

The programming language used to develop b2 was PHP along with MySQL. It was specifically designed to write blogs.

The major innovation in b2 was generating a page dynamically from the contents of MySQL database instead of static web pages.

It also made use of MySQL for database which provides a search option among the blogs present in the database.

It was licensed under GPL which made its source-code open for all.

It was an unmaintained site. He worked on b2 till December 2002, and suddenly vanished. All the b2 users community was concerned about the developing work of b2.

Michel reappeared in 2003 and later joined WordPress as a contributing developer.

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Birth of WordPress

WordPress is the successor and fork (copy of source code) of b2/cafelog founded by Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg. It is also written in PHP language with MySQL.

Matt Mullenweg, son of a software engineer, was a user community member of b2. In 2002, he was a college student when installed b2 for his personnel use.

When Michel Valdrighi stopped updating b2, then Matt decided to fork the b2 software to do his blogging. He wrote a blog announcing to fork b2 source-code, and got a reply from Mike Little stating that he is also interested in forking and would like to work with him.

On 1st April 2003, they created a less than 10 member team to create their own version.

WordPress name

The name WordPress was suggested by a friend of Matt Mullenweg, Christine Selleck Tremoulet.

The name was completely her idea.

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Releasing WordPress

After thousands of commits to the official SVN repository, WordPress first version 0.7 was released on May 27, 2003.

Next version 0.1 was released in January 2004 which is also called Davis version. Name Davis was given by Matt as he has affection towards jazz. From now on, all the updates are named on jazz.

Matt also used to include a plugin called Hello Dolly, in every release. This name is a tribute to Louis Armstrong.

After few months of announcing work on b2, some other developers also forked b2. They were, b2evolution by Francois planque from France and b2++ by Donncha O Caoimh from Ireland.

Due to various forks Michel decided to make WordPress the official branch of b2. On 29th May 2003, Matt invited both b2++ and b2evolution to join hands with WordPress. Donncha of b2++ joined readily but other one didn't.

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WordPress in current scenario

WordPress is expanding day by day. It is adding some more features in its each version.

Currently it is the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world with millions of users every day. According to a survey, WordPress encounters 22.5% of all websites on the Internet. Today these millions of users who may be developer, writer, blogger or designer make a living out of it.

WordPress yet doesn't provide best use for mobile users. Currently, very few large enterprises use WordPress as their CMS. This number is gradually increasing day by day.

All in all, we can say that future of WordPress is very bright. Matt himself said that he envisioned WordPress as the leading Operating System in coming years.

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What is WordPress

WordPress is a free and open-source Content Management System (CMS). It is an online site based on PHP and MySQL. It was mainly designed as a blogging tool but now it has evolved into a versatile CMS. Where, you can use it to create a simple blog as well as a fully operationable website and mobile applications. It is even used to create an online store using some WordPress plugins.

But some people still misunderstand it just as a blogging platform.

It is considered as the easiest and most popular CMS tool due to its features. The main feature of WordPress is its versatility and feasibility to use. There is no use of coding and designing skills for creating a website on this. Even a non-technical person can also create a website with the help of WordPress easily.

WordPress is an open-source community that implies thousands of people from all over the world work on it. It is free software. You are free to download, install, modify and use it. Although, there might be some cost involved during web hosting.

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WordPress Tutorial

WordPress tutorial provides basic and advanced concepts of WordPress. Our WordPress tutorial is designed for beginners and professionals.

WordPress is an open-source CMS (Content Management System) which is based on PHP and MySQL.

Our WordPress tutorial includes all topics of WordPress such as installation, creating WordPress site, working on WordPress dashboard, creating and editing posts, pages and comments, working with themes and plugins, WordPress security, how to backup WordPress, optimizing WordPress performance etc.

WordPress Index

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WordPress Tutorial

• WordPress Tutorial
• What is WordPress
• WordPress History
• WordPress Versions
• WordPress features
• WordPress Licensing
• WordPress .com vs org
• Installing WordPress
• 1) On Local Server
• 2) Using MS Webmatrix

WordPress Dashboard

• WordPress Dashboard
• Create WordPress site
• 1) WordPress Post
• 2) WordPress Pages
• 3) Post vs Pages
• 4) WordPress Comments
• 5) WordPress Categories
• 6) WordPress Tags
• 7) Categories vs Tags
• 8) WordPress Link
  • Add a link in WordPress posts and pages
  • Add a link in WordPress text widgets
  • Add a link in WordPress navigation menus
  • How to Delete WordPress Links
• 9) WordPress Appearance
• 10) WordPress Users

WordPress Themes

• WordPress theme
• Install WordPress themes
• Free vs Paid WordPress themes

WordPress Plugins

• WordPress plugins
• Install WordPress Plugins
• WordPress themes vs plugins

WordPress Advance

• Update WordPress
• Backup WordPress
• Improve Security
• Reset Password
• Optimize Performance

Interview Questions

• WordPress Interview Questions

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Create Tree View and Get category and subcategory in php

Create categories table

CREATE TABLE `categories` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`parent_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`category_name` varchar(100) DEFAULT NULL,
`is_active` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`created_at` datetime NOT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

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Database connection

Create function dbconnect()

<?php
function dbconnect(){
	$host = "localhost";
	$dbuser = "root";
	$dbpass = "";
	$dbname = "corephp";

	$conn = new mysqli($host, $dbuser, $dbpass, $dbname);

	if($conn->connect_error){
		die("Connection failed: ".$conn->connect_error);
	}
	
	return $conn;
}
?>

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Create function categories

Get all parent categories

<?php 
function categories()
{
	$conn = dbconnect();
	
	$sql = "SELECT * FROM categories WHERE parent_id=0";
	$result = $conn->query($sql);
	
	$categories = array();
	
	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
	{
		$categories[] = array(
			'id' => $row['id'],
			'parent_id' => $row['parent_id'],
			'category_name' => $row['category_name'],
			'subcategory' => sub_categories($row['id']),
		);
	}
	
	return $categories;
}
?>

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Create function sub categories

Get all sub categories

function sub_categories($id)
{	
	$conn = dbconnect();
	
	$sql = "SELECT * FROM categories WHERE parent_id=$id";
	$result = $conn->query($sql);
	
	$categories = array();
	
	while($row = $result->fetch_assoc())
	{
		$categories[] = array(
			'id' => $row['id'],
			'parent_id' => $row['parent_id'],
			'category_name' => $row['category_name'],
			'subcategory' => sub_categories($row['id']),
		);
	}
	return $categories;
}

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Create viewsubcat function

Get all sub categories for view

<?php
function viewsubcat($categories)
{
	$html = '<ul class="sub-category">';
	foreach($categories as $category){

		$html .= '<li>'.$category['category_name'].'</li>';
		
		if( ! empty($category['subcategory'])){
			$html .= viewsubcat($category['subcategory']);
		}
	}
	$html .= '</ul>';
	
	return $html;
}
?>

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Create view file

Get all categories and sub categories

<?php $categories = categories(); ?>
<?php foreach($categories as $category){ ?>
		<ul class="category">
			<li><?php echo $category['category_name'] ?></li>
		<?php 
			if( ! empty($category['subcategory'])){
				echo viewsubcat($category['subcategory']);
			} 
		?>
	</ul>
<?php } ?>

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Output

Dynamic MenuTree ViewTree View in PHP

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